Houston Quotes

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.